Cake Toppers & Tutorials – Part 1

March 23, 2014

Making figure model cake toppers can seem like a daunting task for new cake decorators but with a bit of practice, it soon becomes a rewarding and enjoyable skill and one you’ll put to lots of use in your cake decorating.

Starting out, learn the basics of cake topper modelling from the experts, but as you progress you’ll begin to develop your own style, with unique facial expressions, hairstyles and postures bringing your characters to life.

Two more fabulous sets of cake toppers below by Mutlu Dukkan Cakes (below left) and a fashionista cake topper by Madame Gateau, below right to inspire you.

Faces can be tricky to get right when you start out modelling sugar figures and cake toppers. For beginners, it’s best to keep it to very simple with easy cartoon-style faces. As your skills develop, you can work on your facial features more. Deleukste Taarten NL demonstrate how to make the detailed young female face below, in their tutorial here : female face cake topper tutorial.

Playing around with hairstyles is the most fun part of making cake toppers and you’ll find some hairstyle ideas below by Canada’s, House of The Rising Cake.

More inspiration from The Artisan Cake Company with their two fabulous baby shower cake toppers below.

Elaine Thomas of Creative Celebration Cakes UK has put together some tutorials on the trickier aspect of modelling sugar figures/cake toppers:

The fun cupcakes below – cupcake faces – were created by Bake Happy and their tutorial provides lots of inspiration and tips to help you create faces for your sugar models and cake toppers also: tutorial for cupcake faces.

We have more terrific cupcakes faces below left by Shereen’s Cakes and Bakes, designed for a little girl’s princess themed party. You’ll find the full tutorial here, with tips you can adapt for your figure models: face cupcakes tutorial/princess cupcakes.